Good Morning fellow Club members,

We are less than eight weeks now until our symposium in Corning. The program is out for all to see, and it looks like yet another year of stimulating and exciting presentations and activities.

As the co-chair of the dinner auction, it is my pleasure to tell you that we have almost thirty lots to date committed to the auction. I would like to take this opportunity to remind folks that the proceeds from the dinner auction go directly into the club coffers and that the auction has always been intended to be a fund raising function.

I humbly request to all of you who will be attending the symposium this year, possibly consider placing an item (either Carder Steuben, modern Steuben, Corning related glass, etc) into the auction. If you wish to not donate a piece, where the club receives 100% of the selling price, you may wish to consign a piece with or without a reserve placed on it, where the club would receive 10% of the final sale price.

Obviously the sustainability of our club doesn’t just hinge on auction proceeds, but the club’s continued viability is certainly furthered every year for current and future members by the generosity of its members now. Thank you for your consideration in this matter. Hope to see you in eight weeks.

Mark A. Chamovitz,
Pittsburgh

What Would You Aspire to Own

What don’t I have in my POSESSION that I aspire to own? Oh you know you would be hearing from me on this subject.

At the last Symposium auction I was out bid on a small cigarette urn, it was a beautiful red with a clear base and handles. I have regretted losing out for this past year and now the wound is open again.

John Styler
Prospect Heights, Il

Hi Alan

Further to Bobby Rockwell’s information about Blair Hardenburg, I am not quite sure, but I think this little cocktail glass with the very realistic glass cherry was made by him.

Vivienne Richards,
Port Dover, Ontario

Kathy Hopkins asked what the words “Catalog 8029” meant with regard to her white swirl paperweight. That paperweight was designed in 1952 by George Thompson. It originally sold for $25.00. It’s shape number (or, I suppose, catalog number) is 8029. You can find the line drawing for this weight on page 356 of the 2003 edition of MJ Madigan’s book, “Steuben Glass – An American Tradition in Crystal.”

Scott Hansen,
Stamford, CT.